16. The summer of decentralized social
https://newpublic.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-decentralized-social
So at this week's electronics fair, I found a weird VR headset prototype. No names on it, and it says "prototype/not for resale". I took it apart to figure out who made it, and completely failed. It's weeeird:
Apparently the #rokid Max has a button that turns on "3d mode" by presenting the two eyes as separate (or was it extended?) displays.
I'm planning to use this for shenanigans by having different windows presented in each eye. E.g. on my left I can have my chats and references, and on my right I can have my terminals / editors.
It's likely it won't just work out of the box, but it'd be fun if it did. :P
I'm digging how hackable the authors made Rhasspy. It's pythonic and the protocols are as human readable as possible. Python makes it pretty easy to find patterns in text and Rhasspy hides ~all of the complexities of voice. I can just write a script that accepts a string of words that were recognized, do whatever (call out to remote services, append the text to a file, ..), and then return text if I want the service to convert it to speech.
tried to flash my #pinephone again and it seems that there still major usability errors.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-beta-14-with-plasma-mobile-pinephone-pinephone-pro/129553
"Suspend seems to be breaking the lockscreen, requiring a reboot." and "Customizations might not last through reboots." seem like nonstarters for me 😅
15. Infinifilters: Alternative to bloom filters wgich scales better aa your data grows.
Honestly I'm really happy with the simplicity of this tool. With it I can debug large datasets of #ipfs data without needing to touch the network or maintain a web app.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.